Video (How to Teach Your Non Verbal Child To Imitate You, Pt 2) demonstrates language facilitation techniques during parent-child play. Ming and another speaker discuss using a centerpiece toy (vending machine), open-ended questions, narration, allowing the child full access, and avoiding forcing repetition — emphasizing naturalistic interaction even when the child does not produce words.
If mouse shape doesn't work, then we go for a gesture that has some language meaning in it. So as you can see, she's also using a centerpiece toy vending machine. We have a video on it. Just search for vending machine inside of our channel. Watch this.
Thank you. For one coin. Put in the coin and choose to drink. Choose the mineral water on the left.
And you see that the parent isn't stopping the kid's hand, letting him talk. And. And we're not doing any of that. We're doing here instead is asking some open ended questions, narrating the stuff.
Oh, well done. High five. Well done. High five.
Sometimes when you go up to this level doing language facilitation, you can see that the kid totally just ignores them. And we're okay with that because we're giving full access to the toy and we're not trying to push the kid to repeat anything. So you see he hasn't really had a real word come out yet. You can see she's talking to the child. How very naturalistic.
